A STUDY ON MUTUAL FUNDS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DECCAN FINANCE Pvt., Ltd.

Resumen

These investors have found a good shelter with the mutual funds. Mutual fund industry
has seen a lot of changes in past few years with multinational companies coming into the
country, bringing in their professional expertise in managing funds worldwide. In the past few
months there has been a consolidation phase going on in the mutual fund industry in India.
Now investors have a wide range of Schemes to choose from depending on their
individual profiles. The study gives an overview of mutual funds – definition, types, benefits,
risks, limitations, history of mutual funds in India, latest trends, global scenarios, and analyzed a
few prominent mutual funds schemes and has given my findings. To state in simple words, a
mutual fund collects the savings from small investors, invest them in Government and other
corporate securities and earn income through interest and dividends, besides capital gain. It
works on the principle of” small drop of water makes a big ocean’.